SAgE Presentation to Council
Steve Homans
11th February 2014
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Schools & Institutes in SAgE
“Supply” (disciplinary)
Engineering Schools
“Demand” (thematic)
 Chemical Engineering & Applied Materials (CEAM)
Research Institutes &
Centres
 Civil Engineering & Geosciences (CEGS)
 Newcastle Institute for
 Electrical, Electronic & Computer Systems
Engineering (EEE)
 Marine Science & Technology (MAST)
 Mechanical & Systems Engineering (MSE)
Research on Sustainability
(NIReS)
 Digital Institute (DI)
 7 Research Centres
Science Schools
 Agriculture, Food & Rural Development (AFRD)
 Biology (BIOL)
 Chemistry (CHEM)
 Computing Science (COMP)
 Mathematics & Statistics (MATH)
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Successes
2012-13 was a very good year:
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Best student satisfaction results ever
UG recruitment 6% above target
Best research income results ever
New research awards 50% above target
Strong financial performance
All of this despite REF preparations
Successful recruitment drive
Highly successful Science Festival
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Key Recruitment
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New Director of NIReS – Phil Taylor (Durham)
New Head of MAST – Andrew Willmott (NOC)
New Head of AFRD – Rob Edwards (DEFRA)
New Dean of R&I – TBC
HOAO (Singapore) – Bryn Jones (Newcastle)
COO (Singapore) – Sarah O’Keeffe (Liverpool)
New Head of Biology – in progress
New Head of Chemistry – in progress
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Challenges
• Doctoral awards
• Student course feedback
• PDR completions
• Securing Athena SWAN awards
• Research still “off the pace” - citations
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Investing in our strengths
4* quality
growth
collaboration
Investment
excellence
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SAgE Schools & Research Groups
Where do our strengths lie?
CHEM
EEE
Communications, Sensors
& Signal Processing
Power Electronics,
Drives & Machines
Emerging Technologies
& Materials
Microelectronics
System Design
Nanotechnology
Photochemistry Marine
Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
CEAM
Asynchronous
Concurrent Systems
Process Intensification
Advanced
& Catalysis
Materials
Process Measurement
& Optimisation
Biology
Neuroscience
& Computing
Systems
MEMS & Sensors
Multiphase Flow &
Thermal Systems
Design, Manufacture
& Materials
Marine Technology
COMP
Electrochemistry
& Fuel Cells
MSE
Bioengineering
MAST
Dependability
Digital
Interactions
Marine Science
MATH
Stats
Applied
Pure
Systems Modelling
BIOL
Biodiversity &
Conservation
Applied Cellular &
Molecular Biology
AFRD
Integrative
Animal Science
Food &
Society
Soils, Crops
& Environment
Food Quality
& Health
Resource
Economics
Rural
Development
CEGS
Transport
Geomatics
Water Resource
Engineering
Environmental Geoscience
Engineering
Geotechnical &
Structural
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SAgE Strengths
Materials
CHEM
Photochemistry
EEE
Nanotechnology
Marine
Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
Medicinal
chemistry
Emerging Technologies
& Materials
Marine
Chem.
CEAM
Process Intensification
Advanced
& Catalysis
Materials
Process Measurement
& Optimisation
FMS
Synthetic
Biology*
Cyber-Physical
Systems*
MATH
Asynchronous
Concurrent Systems
Biology
Neuroscience
& Computing
Stats
Systems
BIOL
Biodiversity &
Conservation
Applied Cellular &
Molecular Biol ogy
AFRD
Integrative
Animal Science
Digital
Interactions
Food &
Society
Soils, Crops
& Environment
Food Quality
& Health
Resource
Economics
Rural
Development
Design, Manufacture
& Materials
MAST
Marine Science
Earth Systems
Engineering*
Dependability
Pure
Systems Modelling
MEMS & Sensors
Multiphase Flow &
Thermal Systems
Marine Technology
COMP
‘Big data’
& cloud*
Bioengineering
Energy*
Microelectronics
System Design
Biomedical
Engineering
Electrochemistry
& Fuel Cells
Applied
MSE
Communications, Sensors
& Signal Processing
Power Electronics,
Drives & Machines
Digital
Interactions*
Food
Security
Logistics
HaSS
CEGS
Transport
Geomatics
Water Resource
Engineering
Environmental Geoscience
Engineering
Geotechnical &
Structural
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SAgE Strengths
CHEM
EEE
Nanotechnology
Photochemistry Marine
MSE
Communications, Sensors
& Signal Processing
Power Electronics,
Drives & Machines
Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
Bioengineering
MEMS & Sensors
Multiphase Flow &
Thermal Systems
Emerging Technologies
& Materials
Design, Manufacture
& Materials
Microelectronics
System Design
CEAM
Process Intensification
Advanced
& Catalysis
Materials
Process Measurement
& Optimisation
FMS
Synthetic
Biology*
Electrochemistry
& Fuel Cells
Medicinal
chemistry
MATH
Stats
Applied
Biomedical
Engineering
Pure
Systems Modelling
BIOL
Biodiversity &
Conservation
Applied Cellular &
Molecular Biol ogy
Digital
Asynchronous
Interactions*
Concurrent Systems
COMP
‘Big
data’
Biology
&Neuroscience
cloud* Dependability
& Computing
Food
Materials
Digital Security
Systems
Interactions
Earth Systems
AFRD Food &
Engineering*
Integrative
Animal Science
Society
Soils, Crops
& Environment
Food Quality
& Health
Resource
Economics
Rural
Development
Marine Technology
MAST
Marine Science
Energy*
*NIReS
HaSS
CEGS
Transport
Geomatics
Water Resource
Engineering
Environmental Geoscience
Engineering
Geotechnical &
Structural
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Goals for REF2020 (based on RAE2008)
UoA
Agriculture
Earth Systems
Chemistry
Pure maths
App maths
Statistics
Computing
Elec. Eng.
Chem. Eng.
Civil Eng.
Mech. Eng.
T&C Planning
GPA
2.4
2.75
2.45
2.35
2.7
2.6
2.9
2.65
2.65
3.1
2.75
2.8
%4*
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15
10
20
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10
20
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Position
number
Top GPA
11=
18=
26=
30=
16=
13=
21=
18
6=
4=
11=
4=
30
42
33
38
46
31
81
34
10
23
33
26
2.75
3.3
3.2
3.25
3.05
3.3
3.35
3.05
3.15
3.35
3.05
3.05
ambition
top 5
top 10
top 15
top 15
top 10
top 10
top 10
top 5
top 3
top 2
top 5
top 2
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Science Central
• £50m project approved
• Digitally-enabled Urban Sustainability
• Completion target: September 2017
• Computing Science anchor tenant
• Major push to secure inward investment
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Singapore (NUIS)
• New governance structure implemented
• Approval to develop NUIS research
strategy
• Application for HEI status
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Critical tasks for 2014 (and beyond)
• ‘Raise the Bar’ on our academic activities
focus on REF2020 preparations
continue to recruit the very best staff
creating a comprehensive support network to enable
shared understanding and approach to the delivery of
excellence
– growth in key areas
– engender culture change - outputs
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• Science Central – maintain momentum
• Develop a research presence in Singapore
• Renew the SAgE Vision
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The SAgE Vision
“To be a Faculty of Science, Agriculture and
Engineering with a global reputation for academic
excellence in its areas of strength, that provides
leadership to the University and region in
Sustainability, and that contributes substantially
to all the University’s Societal Challenge themes.”
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Thank you
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